Differentiated Instruction

Workshop Part 1: Differentiated Instruction

Differentiation Handout:

Differentiation workshop 2010 Atlanta, Georgia.pdf

Try a tier , RAFTS, menu, center handout:

Differentiated Instruction World Languages Article:Theisen differentiated article SEDL.pdf
RAFT-explain:raft explain CCFLTFall.doc
RAFT Template:raft assignments templateuse CCFLT2006.doc
RAFT Writing Prompt practice:Raft writing prompt practiceCCFLTFall.doc

Menu Menu Choice Board 2010.doc	Tier TIER.doc
RAFT RAFT.doc	Learning Center Learning Centers.doc

Differentiated Instruction to Support and Challenge our 21st Century Learners:Visual Agenda Movie:

Strategies and Templates

Differentiated Instruction ; Educational resources that help classroom teachers adjust their teaching process to their learners needs This site is very extensive and filled with links and resources.
Overview of Differentiated Instruction and Frequently Asked Questions
Differentiated Instruction in the Foreign Language Classroom: Meeting the Diverse Needs of All Learners
Differentiating Instruction in the AP Spanish Classroom
Teachnology: excellent site with concrete activities and resources
Dr. Carol Tomlinson's website
Differentiation: This site is clear and concise.
List of many differentiation tools
How Is Curriculum Differentiated To Address The Diverse Learners In The Classroom?
World Languages and Special Ed
More differentiated instruction strategies
Differentiated Instruction Task force-Thompson School District-Loveland, CO
Blooming in the 21st century
Differentiation Toolbox-Tomlinson site
Teaching Languages to Boys
Tools for Teams-Icebreakers, etc.
Handbook of Emerging Technologies

Special Ed Strategies for Differentiated Instruction

Testing iPods in Special Education: In this clip, we see pupils with special educational needs from Louisa-Muscatine Elementary in Iowa using Video iPods to help them do better in their basic skills tests and personalise their learning.
The pilot project set up in 2005 allows students to listen to each question being read aloud while they follow the text on the screen and paper.

Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy from Edoragami
Lower Order Thinking
Remembering	Recognising, Listing, Describing, Identifying, Retrieving, naming, Locating, Finding, bullet pointing, highlighting, bookmarking, social networking, social bookmarking, favouriting/local bookmarking, searching & googling.	Gathering information Count, Define, Match, Observe, Select, Describe, Identify, List, Observe, Name & Recite.
Understanding	Interpreting, Summarising, inferring, paraphrasing, classifying, comparing, explaining, exemplifying, advanced searches, Boolean searches, blog journaling, twittering, catergorising, tagging, commenting, annotating & subscribing.	Processing information Analyse, Categorise, Compare/Contrast, Explain, Infer, Make, Analogies, Sequence, Synthesize & Sort.
Applying	Implementing, carrying out, using, executing, running, loading, playing, operating, hacking, uploading, sharing & editing.
Analysing	Comparing, organising, deconstructing, attributing, outlining, finding, structuring, integrating, mashing, linking, validating, reverse engineering & cracking.
Evaluating	Checking, hypothesising, critiquing, experimenting, judging, testing, detecting, monitoring, blog commenting/critiquing, reviewing, posting, moderating, collaborating, networking, refactoring & testing.	Applying Information. Apply a principle, Evaluate, Forecast, Hypothesize, Imagine, Assess, Predict, Speculate, Judge, if/then, Idealize & Generalise.
Creating	Designing, constructing, planning, producing, inventing, devising, making, programming, filming, animating, blogging video blogging, mixing, re-mixing, wiki-ing, publishing, videocasting, podcasting, directing & broadcasting
Higher Order Thinking